Dall’irraggiunto irraggi by Domingo Notaro and translated by Kay McCarthy

This is poetry from Italy.

Dall’irraggiunto irraggi by Domingo Notaro translated by Kay McCarthy is published by Dalkey Archive Press. This is a Book originally written in Italian. This was published in 2017.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781628971781E12.

Dall’irraggiunto irraggi, by Domingo Notaro and translated by Kay McCarthy from Italian, brings Italy Italian-language poetry into English through radiance, distance, and the unreachable horizon implied by the title. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is what happens once the poem starts making its own weather. I would read it for light, pursuit, longing, and the way a poem can aim toward what it knows it may not reach, not as a fixed lesson about a country or period. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. Dall’irraggiunto irraggi belongs in the translated poetry library because it gives the shelf a quieter Italian work of desire and formal restraint.

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